There’s body camera footage, and multiple eyewitnesses, do you really think they’re going to make up a knife?
There’s body camera footage, and multiple eyewitnesses, do you really think they’re going to make up a knife?
That does actually sound like a good point.
Sitting in the cheap seats to look like one of the people, and costing a fortune in security, would no doubt attract equal viritrol.
and hire his own bodyguards
Now that’s a take, Holy hell.
Asking people to give up their lives, hobbies, and anything that brings them joy when they go into politics isn’t the way to get quality candidates.
Definitely there has to be a good reason for it.
We’ve never had a similar situation to compare to.
I’m from New Zealand, our police shoot people with knives occasionally. I’m not convinced this would have ended differently here, or any other country.
A knife is an incredibly dangerous weapon, and the alternative solutions being proposed here just aren’t realistic.
The man catcher poles thing was pretty funny though.
some untrained bloke with a pocket knife,
Wow.
Even in video games, a knife is typically pretty deadly. It’s an instant kill if you stab someone in the back in a few games.
seemingly anywhere else a knife-wielding assailant can be subdued without blood being drawn,
Where has this actually happened though? I very much doubt it’s standard practice for any police force.
but the cops put the public in more danger than the danger the cops faced by this one violent individual.
I’m not sure that’s the case here actually, it sounds to me like it was only a matter of time before this person went off on someone if they were so quick to pull a knife on the police.
Yep.
A lot of people have a totally black and white view of the world, and they will never admit that, occasionally, the group they hate isn’t totally in the wrong. It’s kinda sad actually.
I’m not saying the police were perfect here, but someone attacking you with a knife isn’t something that “might” kill you, it’s an incredibly dangerous situation that presents an immediate danger to your life.
Honestly, some of the comments here are so detached from reality it’s incredible.
According to the comments, the solution here is for the police to get in a wrestling match with the man running at them with a knife.
Very reasonable thing to expect.
Seriously? That’s your solution, a wrestling match with a knife weilding perp?
It also could have been avoided if the nutter hadn’t pulled a knife on the police.
The guy had a knife, which might have injured one of the cops, maybe.
Where do people like you even come from?
Also, they tasered the guy twice before finally shooting him, so they didn’t “automatically reach for their guns”.
They tried to Taser the guy twice.
Just out of interest, what would you have done differently?
They were about to be wounded themselves, by the sound of it.
Prime Ministers get invited to all kinds of events, this isn’t particularly remarkable in my view.